Michael discusses Quiz, Good Omens, Prodigal Son, fans and being a father for the second time at 50. Read more:

LOS ANGELES—Michael Sheen has played Prime Minister Tony Blair, TV broadcaster icon David Frost and renowned human sexuality researcher William Masters, but the role he enjoys reprising these days is that of a father.

It has been 20 years since Michael became a first-time dad when he and Kate Beckinsale had Lily Mo Beckinsale-Sheen. Last September, the English actor returned to playing one of his favorite roles—a father—to Lyra, his daughter with Swedish actress Anna Lundberg.

“It’s been 20 years since I did this,” Michael confirmed in a video call about becoming a dad again at age 51.

“To be a new dad with a little baby in lockdown as well is a very particular experience,” said the Golden Globe nominee for the TV drama series, “Masters of Sex.” “It’s been great because it means that her routine comes first. I know a lot of people have been saying since the lockdown that routine is such an important thing because otherwise, you end up living in your pajamas all day, not doing anything. But, of course, she has a routine that has to be stood by, so she dictates what happens in the day.

Expect more blood after Fox picked up serial killer thriller Prodigal Son for a second season.

The network is likely to air the second season of the series, which stars Michael Sheen and Tom Payne, in midseason, as a result of the COVID-19 production shutdown. The renewal comes after network unveiled its fall schedule last week and the renewal of The Resident and Last Man Standing earlier this week.

Prodigal Son, which was the season’s number two new scripted series after 9-1-1: Lone Star, follows Tom Payne’s Malcolm Bright, son of ‘The Surgeon’, played by Sheen, who as a child was responsible for enabling the police to arrest his father. He has not seen his father in ten years after joining Quantico. Now a profiler, formerly with the FBI, until he was fired, and currently consulting for the New York Police Department, Bright is forced to confront his father after a copycat serial killer uses Whitly’s methods of killing. He finds himself drawn back into constant contact with his father as he must both use Whitly’s insights to help the police solve particularly horrible crimes and battle his own inner demons.

On February 29 Michael Sheen reunited with his Masters of Sex co-star Lizzy Caplan for a Warner Bros. panel held at the Whitby Hotel in New York that signaled the beginning of the Emmy Awards FYC season. The actors spoke about Fox’s Prodigal Son and Hulu’s Castle Rock, shows where they both play serial killers. After they event, they attended a high tea. Check out the photos on out gallery:

In this new interview for the American newspaper, Michael talks about his character on the Fox crime drama and gives a spoiler about Martin Whitly’s cardigan. It contains spoilers from episode Alone Time, aired on January 20!

There are also a couple of photos for this interview, which you can see on our gallery:

On ‘Prodigal Son’, Michael Sheen’s Father Knows, and Kills, Best

Michael Sheen has made cardigans dangerous. On the Fox drama “Prodigal Son,” he plays Dr. Martin Whitly, also known as the Surgeon, a brilliant Manhattan doctor who is responsible for at least 23 murders, most of them gruesome. Convicted and confined to a psychiatric hospital, he spends his days swathed in a nubbly, oatmeal sweater, playing mind games with his son, Malcolm (Tom Payne), a profiler for the New York Police Department.

Read below a long but great interview Michael gave to Collider in which he talked about Dolittle and working with Robert Downey Jr., Good Omens, Quiz, Prodigal Son, and The Way, a three-part series he is directing:

I recently sat down with Michael Sheen, who stars as the villainous Dr. Blair Müdfly in director Stephen Gaghan’s Dolittle, opening this weekend. While sitting in his trailer on the Universal backlot, Sheen and I had a wide-ranging conversation about working with Robert Downey Jr. and spending so much time looking at a tennis ball on set, the success of Amazon’s Good Omens, his idea for a Columbo episode, why he agreed to co-star on Prodigal Son, his upcoming limited series Quiz (which is about a huge Who Wants To Be A Millionaire scandal in Britian), being in an episode of The Simpsons, how he’s getting ready to direct a three-part series called The Way, and a lot more.

As you’ve seen in the trailers, Dolittle stars Downey Jr. as the famed doctor that can talk to animals. After his wife dies, Dolittle retreats behind his castle walls until being tasked to try and save the young Queen (Jessie Buckley) from a deadly illness. As he travels the world looking for a mythical island, he’s joined on his quest by a young apprentice (Harry Collett) and numerous animals that are voiced by Emma Thompson, John Cena, Tom Holland, Rami Malek, Craig Robinson, Ralph Fiennes, Selena Gomez, Octavia Spencer, Kumail Nanjiani, and Marion Cotillard. Dolittle also stars Antonio Banderas and Jim Broadbent.

Michael appeared as guest on ‘Live with Kelly and Ryan’ on Monday morning, December 23rd, to chat about Prodigal Son, currently on hiatus until January 20th. You can watch two snippets of his appearance below, in which he talks about his great great grandmother, who as an elephant and lion tamer, and his father, a Jack Nicholson impersonator:

Last Sunday (December 15th) Michael attended a Prodigal Son panel at SAG-AFTRA Foundation Conversations in New York City, alongside his co-stars Tom Payne (who plays Malcolm Bright in the show), Bellamy Young (Jessica Whitly), and Lou Diamond Phillips (Gil Arroyo).

The SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild‐American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) Foundation is a “nonprofit organization dedicated to providing the most comprehensive, educational and state-of-the-art resources to SAG-AFTRA members.” Click here to learn more about it.

A video of the panel is expected to be up on their YouTube channel on the next days, and will be posted on here and Twitter as soon as it happens. Meanwhile, check out the photos on the gallery:

In an interview to Entertainment Weekly, the Prodigal Son showrunners Chris Fedak and Sam Sklaver spoke about Michael’s casting as Dr. Martin Whitly:

Did you always have Michael Sheen in mind to play that serial killer/good dad?FEDAK: When we knew Fox was going to make the show, there was this big, gigantic search where we put together a list of names and start to figure out who’s going to be the person. Michael Sheen’s name was always going to be on that list and we were just like, “There’s no way! There’s no way we could possibly get Michael.” Then he read the script and he liked it, and all of a sudden it was just like, “Wait a minute. Everybody stop! Breathe! Hold on!” He’s a generational talent. He’s incredible and for us, we were so stoked and amazed to be working with him. We always wanted someone who could be dark and sinister and scary, but we also needed someone who could be a great dad and wear a cardigan and have a beautiful beard. We didn’t really let ourselves believe that Michael would do the role until he did the role because it’s hard on network television to get this caliber of actors that we got — not just in Michael, but in Bellamy, bringing in Lou. The material brought us some great actors who we were thrilled to get.

They also gave some hints of what to expect from “The Surgeon” when the crime drama returns on January 20th 2020:

Does Martin get out of solitary confinement soon? Has that messed him up even more?FEDAK: He will not be unaffected by solitary confinement, because Martin being alone with his thoughts is one of the most dangerous and scary things you can probably imagine. From a spoiler perspective, we can promise that he will be featured heavily and a be a big part of our return in episode 11.SKLAVER: To Jessica Whitley’s dismay, he will not stay in solitary forever.FEDAK: Which also gives us an opportunity to do something we’ve been wanting to do for a while: In episode 11, it’ll give us a chance to put Michael Sheen and Lou Phillips Diamond in the same scene.

You can read the rest of their interview here and find more about “Silent Night”, the fall finale aired last night on Fox. Don’t click if you haven’t seen the episode yet!

The Prodigal Son stars Tom Payne and Bellamy Young, who play Malcolm Bright and Jessica Whitly respectively, spoke about how they decided to join the TV show because of Michael. In an interview to Brief Take, Tom revealed:

And to have those amazing one-on-one scenes with Michael which are a gift. I know that everyone behind the scenes were excited for those. We shot them close to the end of the shoot and I was definitely very excited! Michael was a huge reason why I signed on to the show, because when you have an actor of that caliber like this on a tv show, you know you’re in safe hands. As an actor, you want to work with the best, and I really think that Michael is one of the best actors that we have, so that was a real gift for me.

Speaking to People, Bellamy called Michael “acting gold” and “fenomenally talented” and also told how she eagerly accepted the job once she learned he was in it. Watch the video below:

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